The Radeon Vega VII is now shipping. It's expected to be fully supported in macOS 10.14.4. Meanwhile we fired up Windows OS on our Mac Pro tower to see how it compared to competing GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA.

This is a looping playback of a 1080p clip (Candle project) with 1x noise reduction added and rendering on the fly. NVDIA GPUs rendered with CUDA. AMD GPUs rendered with OpenCL. (HIGHER frames per second = FASTER)

In terms of MSRP, here's how the three GPUs compare. (LOWER price = BETTER)

THOUGHTS

The Vega VII won the first three tests, but could not match the GTX 1080 Ti in the two game tests.

At this writing, only the Vega Frontier Edition, RX Vega 64, and RX Vega 56 run under macOS Mojave. Hopefully we'll soon get to test the Vega VII in an eGPU connected an iMac Pro or MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave 10.14.4. Based on our experience with the Vega Frontier in an eGPU, it would provide a welcome boost to DaVinci Resolve and other pro apps.

We used an external PSU to insure sufficient power was being feed to the Vega VII, Vega Frontier, and RX Vega 56.

We fervently hope that Apple and NVIDIA will come to a meeting of the minds and bring full support of the RTX 2060, 2070, and 2080 to macOS Mojave.

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